The white knighting and bullying on negative reviews....

[Zerotheliger]

Seriously look at all the negative reviews and you have the fan boys bullying and harrasing these people some cases even threatening their real life, impersonation, etc. This has got to stop im sure CA does not want his fans doing this.

[OldPeasant]

The genre of this game is very well known for its zealous basement dwelling fans. As a result, consumer reviews of this genre are usually radically tilted towards "best game 4 ever" comments regardless of the innovative/good the game is. I'd recommend simply watching no-commetary youtube videos of the gameplay to get an idea if you'll like this game.

引用自 landwalker04：

Tried to find examples of the above behavior. Could only find two negative reviews.

I''m pretty sure there's some sort of algorithm that will cause reviews to disappear if the helpful ratio is poor and the review has been up for an extended period of time.

[Wardiaper]

I've seen that behavior for positive reviews on other games where some people feel the "reviewer" has some kind of obligation to write a professional review and harass them if they don't go into great depth in their review for every system in the game, compare it to other games, etc.

They should change the review system and just allow thumbs up or thumbs down without having to write a review. If I buy a game and enjoy it I should be able to put "great game" and a thumbs up without being harassed. Just change it from "review" to "opinion."

If I pay my money like any other gamer and just want to add a positive vote, I should be able to do that without non-paying gamers demanding a thorough review. If you want a review go read your favorite reviewer or check the forum. I don't get paid to write reviews.

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Back on topic - it is wrong to harrass and bully negative reviews, but it is perfectly acceptable to question what a reviewer does write. Some people will put "game is broken" or other things that are obviously wrong and should be asked about it.

[Saint Landwalker]

引用自 Nubface：

引用自 Zerotheliger：

Seriously look at all the negative reviews and you have the fan boys bullying and harrasing these people some cases even threatening their real life, impersonation, etc. This has got to stop im sure CA does not want his fans doing this.

Disclaimer: I do not own the game, and do not know if I will. I am only here, in this forum, to see if I can gauge the quality of the game and the community.

I have been browsing these forms for a while now, and after reading this post, took it upon myself to go and check out the OP's claim. Much to my dismay, I did find his claim to be somewhat true. Some people were helpful, some were more or less rabid fanboys, acting as though they were somehow personally offended by that red thumbs down.

Now, typically, this doesn't matter to me. After all, they are nothing more than just some words on a screen. That said, community involvement is important to me. I like to be able to feel some sort of kinship with the other people that frequent the game within the community, and if "Kill yourself ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥ lover (this is an actual comment on one of the reviews)" is the kind of attitude that is going given to me over a mere difference in opinion, then I can't in good faith say thats the kind of community I want to be a part of.

Yeah, it's kind of pointless, and yeah, it's just words on a screen, but that doesn't mean it should be tolerated either. Toxic communities tend to kill games, and sometimes, really good ones. I'd hate to see that become the case here, because the game does look like a lot of fun.

Major, major flaw in the steam review system.

All entirely valid. But this is why I earlier said that it's better for the cretinous vitriol to come in a forum where nobody except said cretins will bother to look. (And with my condolences to any legitimate reviewers who actually presented an argument as opposed to just the "lolbad" non-reviews.)

The review-responses are, thankfully, entirely separate from what I've seen in the actual general discussion, where people who are legitimately interested in the game and its community go. While I have admittedly not been here all that long (then again, the game just got released), the group of folks here seem exponentially more civil than what I've seen for other games.

As my Steam Profile shows (although I don't actually know off-hand if it's publicly visable or not), before this I was primarily playing XCOM 2. Which is a very fun game, for me. It also has an incredibly adversarial forum community, where the usual form of communication is at least one of "You're having this problem because you're an incompetent, barely-sapient pseudo-primate who can't even grasp the rules of Pong, let alone the intricate nuances that critically acclaimed, once-in-a-generation paragons of human intelligence like myself have effortlessly mastered" and "Everyone who says this game is easy is a cheating liar who is, at a minimum, 30% Satan himself by blood." One or both of these are usually followed by either unmitigated exultation for, or frothy and rabid denunciations of, Firaxis as a company.

The sad thing is that, compared to the average of community forums, the one for XCOM 2 isn't even that bad.

So maybe I'm a bit jaded.

But at least here, people are (mostly) having civil and enthusiastic discussions about the game and its content, happily helping other folks who are struggling, and so forth. It is—not unlike the game itself—surprisingly peaceful and refreshing. At least, it is when I haven't been at work for 10 hours and start getting snippy with people dragging attention back to the bottom-feeders who plague other e-locales, which I thought I had escaped.